Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:09:19 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp & pppctl Message-ID: <19971105090919.OC28248@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199711032241.WAA06861@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Nov 3, 1997 22:41:59 %2B0000 References: <199711032241.WAA06861@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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As Brian Somers wrote: > 4. No socket is created by default. > > 1. You *must* set a password in /etc/ppp/ppp.secrets or on the > "set server" command line: > > set server|socket TcpPort|LocalName|none [passwd] [mask] > > 2. If you specify an empty password, you don't need to use the > ``passwd'' command. > 3. You can *always* -USR1 ppp to re-open the socket on > AF_INET:3000+tunno. Please, accompany this by an AF_LOCAL socket example in the ppp.conf files (as a comment), so people will have a quick way of finding out how to use it. > 6. Pppctl will have an ``interactive'' mode, taking away ``telnet''s > attraction. That's great, yep! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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